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@JWTelegraph 40s41 seconds ago More Mark Hughes appointment as Southampton manager is agreed. Premier League survival bonus is just under £1m and contract until the end of the season. Lol Crook was wrong again.

How many new threads are going to be created? I'll go for four.

Express + Crook = Made up nonsense.

They've just scored in stoppage time. I notice Grigg was only on the bench.

How long before Batman creates a serious thread on this topic though? I'll go for after the defeat at Arsenal.

Went back through Mark Hughes's managerial record and took his first 8 league games (or qualifying games for Wales) for each team in his career Stoke 2013 - W2 D2 L4 QPR 2012 - W1 D2 L5 Fulham 2010 - W1 D6 L1 Man City 2008 - W3 D1 L4 Blackburn 2004 - W1 D4 L3 Wales 99/00/01 - W1 D4 L3 Not brilliant - The best start he got off to was at Man City. Or maybe we can do what he did at Fulham and draw nearly every game.

It can't be any worse than the Newcastle shambles.

I wonder if our new manager will be in attendance at Bradford v Wigan?

I notice that Matt Targett ‘liked’ the post announcing his sacking on Instagram

Hughes will do well for us initially, but things do tend to get stale after a while. I think the best we can hope for is him doing well for us and then another club taking him off our hands, Everton probably.

In my opinion, three wins would be enough. We have to beat West Ham though, a draw really isn't enough.

Charlie Austin ‏ @chazaustin10 That was mouldy ????

Funny how he all the time three years ago to all of these media interviews, and now is very unwilling to speak in the press. Has he gone shy, I wonder why he's reluctant to appear these days?

Stoke fans are comfortably the worst set of fans in the league, and possibly all of English football. You won't meet a set of more bitter, deluded people anywhere, except perhaps down the road towards the eastern end of the M27.

I imagine he'll get a job with one of Spain's clubs quite easily.

The West Ham game will be fun, Mark Hughes will be desperate to get one over Arnautovic http://www.skysports.com/football/news/11701/11175946/mark-hughes-criticises-marko-arnautovic-after-pair-clash-in-west-ham-win

Yup, but anything is better than Pellegrino, and hopefully an ‘OK’ manager will be able to do enough.

Batman can call me a snob, but Mark Hughes would be thoroughly underwhelming.

I hope you’re right SKD. I’d prefer Marco Silva to Hughes.

He’ll be remembered as the worst manager we’ve ever had in my lifetime. So at least he can say he’ll always be remembered by Saints fans. Sadly not for the right reasons.

They're discussing tonight's news on three separate threads over on POL... but they definitely don't care about us at all, no sir

This is from Pompey Online...

I'm not old at all I'd only want him until the end of the season, he certainly isn't the long term option. But he could give us the short term push that we need.

No doubt if we stay up, he'll be doing the media rounds at the end of the season, congratulating himself on appointing the manager who got us to safety.

Martinez - has Hazard, De Bruyne, Lukaku etc.. or Tadic, Redmond and Long.... hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm tough choice.